Menorca Extreme Day Trip
Having lost my Extreme Day Trip virginity in Malta on 10th May, I found a group of fellow travel lovers through facebook. This group is great for UK EDT lovers - and this one specifically for those travelling from Manchester.
Before I knew it, I ended up booking three trips with a bunch of complete strangers. One to Menorca, one to Cologne and one to Cork.
Menorca was a bit of an impulse one. It was a Saturday trip, which meant no need to book time off work and I’d have a day to recuperate afterwards. There was three of us going, two ladies from Staffordshire and myself.
I met them in the departures lounge in the terminal 2, flying out with Jet2 and returning with Ryanair. We booked a glass bottomed harbour boat trip, but other than than, we didn’t have a lot planned.
Zara, the lady that suggested the trip bumped into Wayne Rooney with his son Clay in the lift at the airport, so that was an exciting start to the day.
Our flight out was later than what I would have picked myself, departing at 0830 and arriving at 1215. I usually look for earlier flights, and there was an earlier option, but it was a little bit more expensive. The flights were £58 but the earlier flight would have added an extra 1 hour and 40 minutes for an additional £38.00.
We boarded the Jet2 flight on time but our departure slot was delayed so we were already an hour late by the time we eventually took off.
We decided to get a taxi from the airport when we arrived. Luckily security was quite quick.
Menorca felt very quiet. There was a little market, where we picked up some magnets. It had a feel of a Sunday in the UK. Not many people around.
Then we found a nice little place to grab a drink and some olives whilst we worked out where to go for our 3pm harbour boat tour. It turned out it was very close to where we were. There was a lovely British expat couple sat next to us, and they helped us with our order as we accidentally ordered olives stuffed with anchovies. They were very nice, telling us about there lives and finding out about our trip.
We walked over to our yellow catamaran harbour boat tour. There were toilets and a bar on board to get a cold drink and snacks. It was a recorded tour in four different languages. There was an upper outside deck and the main boat plus an underground section with glass windows in so you could see under the water. It was a bit like a sauna down there, but I did get to see a few shawls of fish swimming.
It was a pleasant way to relax and spend an hour, looking at the harbour from the boat.
After the trip, we headed off in separate directions to explore the old town. I got my drone out to get a bit of footage and try a few things. Then I found somewhere for an ice cream, interesting smurf flavour that didn’t taste of very much. I did a bit of shopping, got a few photos then met up with the girls again at a restaurant and had a nice refreshing shandy.
By then, it was already time to head back to the airport, another 15 minute taxi ride.
On the flight back, I witnessed a thunderstorm over the UK from above. You couldn’t hear the thunder, and it looked a lot less dramatic from above it, but seeing the clouds light up like a flash from a camera was quite enjoyable.
It was lovely to meet Zara and Louise, hopefully we will meet up again on future trips as all three of us are keep travellers and have lots of stories to swap.
